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Those of you who have joined Pocky Club have already heard about this in our newsletter, but the time has come to let others know!

Pocky Club is sponsoring an Art Contest in the Creation Station at Kumoricon 2008. Entries can hand drawn or created on a computer. Entries do need to be in color. We will accept collaborations though, so if one person draws the entry another may ink or color it. Most importantly entries can be drawn before hand or during the convention, so you can hand in your entry at the Creation Station and then enjoy the rest of the convention. Or even email a high resolution version to pockyclub@gmail.com if you can't make it to Kumoricon itself. The judging in each category will be conducted by the Pocky Club membership present on Sunday Night/Monday Morning and Prizes will be awarded on Monday afternoon. Make sure to include your name and email address so we can get you your prize even if you aren't present.

What are the categories though? Here they are, decided upon at last!All of the Pocky-Tans wear outfits with colors that match their boxes, visit the links to see a scan of the box.

ChocolateChoco-Tan is friendly and cheerful, cute but not "sexy". She's never the prettiest or the best, but she always does her best and everyone loves her for it. Her hair is dark and not too long but not too short either. Always on the go helping others, she tends towards short skirts/shorts and sneakers, but she always fits in wherever she goes.http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk9/pockyclub/Pocky%20Boxes/pockyscan1.png

Men'sMen-Tan was called a tomboy when she was a kid. Now that she's older she still prefers darker outfits but will wear a skirt if it looks good. She is quite strong willed and independent, sometimes she can be bossy but it's because she wants things to be done as well as possible. Her hair is long but she usually wears it up so it's out of her way. When she's off relaxing by herself, she will still lounge around in men's clothes.http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk9/pockyclub/Pocky%20Boxes/Mens_2008.png

ReverseReverse-Tan has been given plenty of nicknames from her friends, like Poar-Tan or Pari-Tan. She's very introverted and never brings attention to herself. You're never quite sure what she's thinking. With all the changes nobody is even sure what her natural hair color is. She always keeps up with the latest trends but she keeps true to herself. It's just that she never opens up to others to let them know. Reverse-Tan may not wear exactly what those around her are wearing, but the colors of her outfits are usually a backwards version of her friends. Like white with red trim if her friend wears red with white trim.Note: Reverse Pocky has also been called Poare and PariPo over the years but is always basically the same snack. This link takes you to our main pocky page so you can see them all.http://pockyclub.elite-otaku.net/pocky.html

Prizes will include a box of Pocky of the flavor appropriate to the category as well as a little bit extra. The main goal of the contest is to decide on the look for each Pocky-Tan so Pocky club can put together commissions from professional artists and also cosplayers dressed as the characters. Pocky Club will credit the original artists but will hold future rights to use the character as they see fit.

Ha! Yes, yes of course!Each category is its own contest! If you want you can just draw one of the girls.You can draw individual copies of each one or one big piece of artwork. There's plenty of time to make other works if you want to make a new entry.

Just to be clear with everyone, each of the categories is judged seperately and awarded its own prize. So even though it's one contest, there are plenty of prizes to win. I am pretty sure we'll add an extra prize for the best work of art. Like, the prize for technical expertise. The other prizes are based more on design than "art quality" so I think that the person who does the best artwork deserves a prize as well.

We do not have a size request really, since we'll not be using the original image for things like fliers and websites.

Since I expect that the winning characters will be from different artists I plan on commissioning all of the characters to be done by a single artist and that copy will be the high resolution version we'll use in the future. That way the contestants don't have to worry so much about the details.

The deadline for entries is Sunday night of the convention. that is when Pocky Club will vote on the entries. Either email your entry to pockyclub AT gmail DOT com or hand it in at the creation station.

Catmegan: Well, if you really don't want to show your art to the public I can not show it, I guess. No the art that isn't winners is not going to be claimed by Pocky club. I added that who legal section to sort of explain that we were going to use the art that won in the future. If not that exact piece then the design. I was voiding likeness rights and stuff. But if you lose and don't want anyone to see your drawing that's OK. We can give it back. We will be scanning/taking pictures of all the art and giving back the originals anyway.

So, this is such a fantastic contest idea! I'm not really the artist-type, but I'm harassing....er...pestering...um...continually asking my friends to enter.

I was checking out the pocky club site section about the contest and there's not much mentioned about the prizes (other than pocky itself). What about having fans donate manga/merch./etc. as prizes? I'd be willing to help out with what I can.

I'll be hitting Kinokuniya and going through the bargain bins. Random giant mangas are fun!If anyone EVER wants to donate to Pocky Club we can use it! I can only justify so much when asking the convention for subsidies.

The real prize is that your design will be part of history as the base for future versions of the Pocky-Tans. I'm going to be commissioning a "finished piece" with all the girls together to show off the different designs in one slick art style. There's more to come after that.

I've only been emailed one entry so far, is everyone else going to be handing them in at the con?

Thanks to everyone who competed, we liked all of your designs but we were looking for a pretty specific "spirit" for each Tan. We only got a couple of other entries so all of the competition was close, the other entries will be posted with the winners here:http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk9/pockyclub/Pocky-Tans/

Thanks to everyone who competed, we liked all of your designs but we were looking for a pretty specific "spirit" for each Tan. We only got a couple of other entries so all of the competition was close, the other entries will be posted with the winners here:http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk9/pockyclub/Pocky-Tans/

Oh wow! I'm so glad I entered! Reverse was the hardest, but also my fav. Here's a sketch all of mine uncolored and in chibi form: